Saturday, February 7, 2015

American Humanists Lose a Big One

New Jersey student wins court case to keep 'under God' in Pledge of Allegiance

"A New Jersey high school senior has won her case to keep "one nation under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance, defeating atheist attacks that sought to strike the language from the pledge.

Samantha Jones, a senior at Highland Regional High School, declared victory Friday in protecting what she has described as the right of her fellow students to continue reciting the Pledge of Allegiance in its entirety. After hearing the teen and her family's case, a state judge dismiss the latest efforts by the American Humanist Association to remove "under God" from the Pledge.

The legal battle first began when an unnamed New Jersey family from Monmouth County, identified in court papers as John and Jane Doe and their child, sued the Matawan-Aberdeen Regional School District in February 2014, alleging the phrase "under God" in the pledge is discriminatory. The case was filed by the American Humanist Association, which claimed the recitation of the pledge violates Article 1 of the state's constitution.

Jones, who was attending another school, fought back, telling Fox News last November that the phrase "acknowledges that our rights don’t come from the government but from a higher power, so they can’t take away the rights."

She described America as a country of many beliefs and claimed all of those beliefs – including those of atheists – are protected by "one nation under God.""
Here is Samantha Jones:
"When I heard about a group of atheists suing to silence every New Jersey school kid who wished to say the Pledge of Allegiance in its entirety, including the words “under God,” I knew I had to do something.

That’s why my family and I decided to defend the Pledge in court. We believe in doing so we are not only standing for the Pledge but also protecting our freedoms as Americans, and our ability to celebrate those freedoms everywhere including in school. And the judge just agreed with us. He dismissed the American Humanist Association’s lawsuit because our legal system doesn’t force kids into silence just because some others take offense at timeless American values."
Finally. Someone read the founding documents and actually understood them.

3 comments:

Unknown said...

Hey, cool! Someone who actually gets the "by our Creator" bit. There's hope for our youth yet.

Next time you're bored and looking for some yucks, ask an atheist why the Fathers included those words in the Declaration of Independence. "Clueless" won't begin to describe their responses.

KD5173 said...

Stefani monaghan , Eisenhower and Congress added the phrase ,"under God", in the 1950's.

Stan said...

No, Kimberlee, that was not added to the Declaration of Independence. It was added to the Pledge of Allegiance. The Declaration of Independence has had nothing, nada, zip, zilch added to it.

He was talking about "...rights endowed by our Creator...", which institutionalizes Christian theism as the basis for the nation. Those are the rights that the girl is talking about.

That you don't know the difference says a lot.